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That list says ALL Rage Against The Machine songs are to be banned. Why? As far as I know, not all their songs are about war or Tuesday...
But they are political. Hmmm.
Ambient forerunner and cut-up pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen has just had a number of concerts banned after what was a rather ill-judged remark. Having said that, I'd like to hear the full interview before rushing to judgement on that one.
Popbitch's rather muted email last week said that Radio One were also 'banning' a list of songs.
[warning: rant ahead]
The thing is, radio stations et al claim that these 'bans' are not actually bans, just a suggestion of songs it would not be in good taste to play.
But they DO end up as de facto bans, and they lead to artists censoring their own work.
For instance, the last time this happened was the Gulf War.
My copy of Massive Attack's Blue Lines is credited to Massive, as the band changed their name, probably in a bid to stay on the airwaves.
The KLF cut gunfire from the start of 3am Eternal, Carter flipped Bloodsport for All to the B side of their single, the Happy Mondays changed the lyrics of Loose Fit (a reference to 'Going to Wipe Out Your Race' and (not suprisingly) Bomb the Base were affected as well.
Even worse, Giles Peterson lost his job at Jazz FM for playing 90 minutes of 'peace music' to show his opposition to the Gulf War.
And a number of songs on the situation in Ireland, such as Wings 'Give Ireland back to the Irish' and the Pogues' 'Birmingham Six' have also been banned at one point or another.
Index on Censorship did a whole book/magazine on this a few years ago which is will worth searching out. (Most of these examples are from it)
It really makes me fucking angry. I'll decide what offends me, thank you very much.
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